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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: ext2 errors w/2.5.x
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:25:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020618032544.GM22427@clusterfs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020617.195611.61846581.davem@redhat.com>

On Jun 17, 2002  19:56 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> I started seeing these occaisionally on my SMP boxes about a month or
> two ago, is anyone else seeing something similar?
> 
> EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,17)): ext2_find_entry: zero-length directory entry
> 
> Upon reboot e2fsck is forced to run (since the partition is marked as
> having errors by the kernel) and no problems are discovered.
> 
> Any clues?

This would appear to be from accessing a buffer (page) which has not yet
been read from disk.  Otherwise you would have an error from e2fsck also.
Andrew has been mucking the most in this area...

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/


  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-18  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-18  2:56 ext2 errors w/2.5.x David S. Miller
2002-06-18  3:25 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2002-06-18  4:15   ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-18  4:17     ` David S. Miller

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